Looking back, 2010 to 2020 was a golden era for gender equality. New institutions were born, financing boomed, and we had feminist foreign policies in name at least, and sometimes even in practice. With strengthened architecture and financing, we created spaces for collective strategizing. And from that advocacy, came new laws and policies that improved…Read more Where do we go next on gender equality?
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Do Less Things, Do Them Really Well: A Recipe for Canadian Aid
Even before the Budget 2025 announcement of $2.7bn in cuts to Canada’s aid budget, there was a recognition Canadian aid needed to change. Partly driven by the destruction of USAID, partly by the election of a very different stripe of government at home, and partly by a longstanding, tacit acknowledgement that Canada’s aid had become…Read more Do Less Things, Do Them Really Well: A Recipe for Canadian Aid
What Are Donors Thinking?
There have been a number of pieces recently on the future of aid (including mine). Most of these pieces agree recent shocks to the aid sector have been structural, and consequently, the entire way we conceive of and deliver aid needs a total rethink. The UK is hosting the first donor conference later this year…Read more What Are Donors Thinking?
The Future of Aid
Where next for aid? If we crunch the numbers, about 40% of all Official Development Assistance was eliminated from the development system in the first months of 2025[1]. We’ve faced cuts before, but these are different. They represent a systemic shock, and their effects will ripple for years in both predictable and unpredictable ways. In…Read more The Future of Aid
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